NVIDIA RTX A4500 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A4500 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A4500 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 14% higher core clock speed: 930 MHz vs 817 MHz
  • Around 17% higher boost clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1282 MHz
  • Around 79% higher texture fill rate: 276.0 GTexel/s vs 153.8 GTexel/s
  • Around 53% higher pipelines: 5888 vs 3840
  • 2.7x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 6 GB
  • Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
  • Around 37% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 107755 vs 78652
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 22 Mar 2022 vs 12 Jan 2021
Core clock speed 930 MHz vs 817 MHz
Boost clock speed 1500 MHz vs 1282 MHz
Texture fill rate 276.0 GTexel/s vs 153.8 GTexel/s
Pipelines 5888 vs 3840
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 107755 vs 78652

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 140 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt vs 140 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A4500 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
107755
78652
Name NVIDIA RTX A4500 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q
Geekbench - OpenCL 107755 78652
PassMark - G3D Mark 13355
PassMark - G2D Mark 590
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 325.878
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3461.767
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 26.167
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 152.172
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 979.608
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 21278
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8913
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8054
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 21278
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8913
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8054
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 8230

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX A4500 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Ampere
Code name GA104 GA106
Launch date 22 Mar 2022 12 Jan 2021
Place in performance rating 145 144
Type Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1500 MHz 1282 MHz
Core clock speed 930 MHz 817 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 552.0 GFLOPS (1:32) 153.8 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 17.66 TFLOPS (1:1) 9.846 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 17.66 TFLOPS 9.846 TFLOPS
Pipelines 5888 3840
Pixel fill rate 144.0 GPixel/s 61.54 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 276.0 GTexel/s 153.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 Watt 60 Watt
Transistor count 17400 million 12000 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent Portable Device Dependent
DisplayPort support
G-SYNC support
HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 512.0 GB/s 288.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit 192 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6

Technologies

GPU Boost
VR Ready